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Safety FirstThe Panhellenic Council unanimously passed a newMedical Amnesty Protocol onWednesday.

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Thurston Avenue bridge | At least four people have been stopped from climbing over fences, including theone pictured above on Thurston Avenue, since the University installed barriers on bridges in the spring of 2010.

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C.U.: Fences Gave Police Time to Respond

After 17 Years of Glee, Choir Director Departs

Faculty CriticizeNew Calendar PlanProposal detrimental to mental health, profs say

At Wednesday’s Faculty Senate meeting, professors slammedthe Calendar Committee’s latest proposal to revise the academiccalendar, saying the changes could prove detrimental to both thequality of students’ academic experiences and their mental health.

The committee proposed to change the last day of classes ––and thus Slope Day –– to a Wednesday instead of a Friday. Studyperiod, Doyle said, would then run from Thursday through

Sunday, and exam week would beshortened from 13 days to eight ––a change Geoffrey Block ’14, at-large representative for the S.A.,said could have adverse conse-quences.

“Shortening the number of daysavailable to take exams is clearlynot a step designed to reduce stu-dent stress,” he said. “The concern[is] that we’re not doing enough toaid student stress. The committeeneeds to reevaluate.”

The recommended changes alsoinclude adding a two-day break between the beginning of thespring semester and spring break, while making no alterations tospring break, Doyle said. These two additional days would likelybe added to a weekend three or four weeks into the semester, withno classes on Monday and Tuesday of that week.

At least four people have been stopped fromclimbing over the campus fences erected to stopsuicides since the University installed the barriersin 2010. While the intentions of the individualsare not known, some administrators said the barri-ers gave emergency responders time to intervene.

After the deaths of six students by suicide dur-ing the 2009-10 academic year — including threeby jumping off bridges during the spring of 2010

— the University installed fences on seven bridgeson campus in an effort to prevent further suicides.

Since then, there have been at least twoinstances — one involving a community memberand one involving a student — when the barriershave allowed police to respond, according to TimMarchell ’82, director of mental health initiativesfor Gannett Health Services.

“These were both examples of how the barriersthat were in place slowed the person down and

By JOSEPH NICZKYSun Senior Writer

“You suck, and you will never live up to myexpectations.”

This is what Prof. Scott Tucker, music,director of choral music at Cornell, says to theGlee Club to push the group to improve,according to Patrick Chamberlain ’13, presi-dent of the Glee Club.

“His rehearsal technique with the men is tonever compliment us,” Chamberlain said.“The second he compliments us, we sound

terrible because we start thinking egotistically.The thing we always tell Professor Tucker todo is to tell us we suck.”

Tucker said that during rehearsal he leadshis choral ensembles — comprised of the menin the Glee Club and the women in theCornell University Chorus — through themusic, introducing them to its meaning andgetting them to “sing it in a way that is stylis-tically appropriate and which communicatesthe deeper musical subtext.” Chamberlain saidTucker understands the human voice so wellthat he can create a perfect sound with the

group, and “he doesn’t stop working with usuntil he gets exactly what he wants.”

“I’ve never sung with a conductor whoknows so much about music or is such anincredible musician,” said Jessica Briggs ’12,former president of the Chorus. “He putseverything he has into conducting us, whichmakes us want to put everything we have intosinging.”

Over the last 17 years, Tucker has pursuedexcellence for both the Glee Club and Chorus.The groups’ performance of “A Prairie HomeCompanion” on National Public Radio in1997 is one of a plethora of accomplishmentshe has tucked beneath his belt.

Next year, Tucker will succeed NormanScribner as the artistic director of the ChoralArts Society, a 170-member amateur chorus inWashington, D.C., that regularly performswith the National Symphony Orchestra. Afteran extensive evaluation process, which Tuckercompared with “being in a fishbowl,” he beat80 applicants from all over the world to theposition.

Tucker’s impending departure has stirredbittersweet feelings in a group of people that,according to Chamberlain, is more like a fam-ily than a choir.

“Of course we’re sad to see him go, butmostly we’re so excited and proud of him,”Briggs said. “I think a lot of people are goingto want to go to D.C. to see his perfor-mances.”

Additionally, Chamberlain said that thepost that Tucker is leaving for is “probably ashigh as one can go in the choral world.”

The sound of music | Prof. Scott Tucker, music, conducts the Glee Club during a rehearsal at SageChapel on Monday.

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The Panhellenic Council unanimously passed its newPanhellenic Medical Amnesty Protocol on Wednesday in aneffort to educate sororities about social responsibility in situ-ations involving alcohol. The protocol was the first of its kindfor the council, according to Laura Sanders, assistant dean ofstudents and advisor to the Panhellenic Council.

The protocol states that in the event of an emergency, if amember of a sorority chapter calls for medical assistanceimmediately, the Greek Judicial Board will not penalize thatchapter.

“Reciprocally, failure to call for medical assistance in anappropriate manner will be considered an ‘aggravating cir-cumstance’ and may affect the judicial response if violationshave occurred,” the protocol states.

The policy also states that although calling for help gives achapter amnesty from judicial consequences, the councilreserves the right to take informal actions to address concernsabout the chapter’s behavior — particularly if “a trend ofmedical emergencies” emerges.

According to Margo Cohen Ristorucci ’13, vice presidentof judicial affairs and standards for the Panhellenic Council,who is a senior news writer for The Sun, the protocol was

developed to ensure that sorority women are not afraid to callfor help when a member of their chapter is in a medical emer-gency.

“The safety of our sisters is of the utmost importance,”Cohen Ristorucci said. “In creating this protocol, we hope todiminish any fear of seeking medical assistance in times ofneed. There should never be a reason not to call for helpwhen someone is in danger.”

According to Cohen Ristorucci, the protocol drew inspira-tion from the Interfraternity Council’s Medical AmnestyProtocol, the University’s Medical Amnesty policy and NewYork’s Good Samaritan law. IFC’s Medical Amnesty Protocoluses a three-strike rule, which allows an individual chapter tocall for medical assistance up to three times without any judi-cial penalties. The University’s Medical Amnesty policy offersjudicial amnesty for students who make medical assistancecalls on behalf of another individual, with no limit on thenumber of instances for which students can be given amnesty.

Panhellenic’s new protocol also does not enforce a limitlike IFC’s “three-strike” rule.

Prior to passing the resolution, Panhellenic was operatingunder IFC’s protocol. Sanders said it was time for the coun-cil to develop its own set of regulations to abide by in anemergency.

“Each council has very different situations that come tothe Greek Judicial Board because of the typical violations themembers of that council face,” Sanders said. “That [particu-lar] council also decides which sanctions would be meaning-ful and applicable for that specific case.”

Cohen Ristorucci said she reached out to chapter presi-dents, risk managers and social chairs to develop aPanhellenic-specific protocol.

“It was really important to me to solicit feedback fromleaders in the Panhellenic community, because if the MedicalAmnesty Protocol [does] not resonate as meaningful and real-istic to them, it is just empty rhetoric,” Cohen Ristoruccisaid.

Sanders added that the new policy does not necessarilycondone illegal or unsafe drinking. Rather, it is meant toemphasize to chapters that getting help for a sister in dangershould be their top priority.

According to Hollis Hanley ’13, president of thePanhellenic Council, there is a general consensus amongchapters that the council should implement the policy imme-diately rather than wait until the fall.

In the future, Panhellenic may collaborate with adminis-trators or train chapter members to educate their sisters aboutmedical amnesty, Cohen Ristorucci said.

“Chapters have been identifying women who areEmergency Medical Technicians or interested in safetyissues,” she said. “I would love for these women to participatein a pilot ‘Medical Amnesty Advocates’ program, in whichtrained advocates could offer invaluable advice to their chap-ters.”

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Thursday, April 12, 2012 3NEWS

The founders of a student group fighting to raiseawareness about epilepsy say their new status as anon-profit will allow them to expand the scope andimpact of their organization.

Kaitlin Hardy ’12 and Dan Nicholls ’11, whostarted FACES in spring 2010, said they are workingto open a national office for their group and to spreadchapters to other college campuses. FACES — whichstands for Facts, Advocacy and Control of EpilepticSeizures — organizes a wide range of activities toboth spread awareness about epilepsy and help indi-viduals living with the condition.

“We wanted to erase [misconceptions] and saythis is something we can talk about,” Nicholls said.

According to Hardy, non-profit status will enableFACES to apply for grants from sources outside ofthe University. Grants will allow the group to “getreal money to fund our organization,” she said.

“This is what it’s going to take to expand nation-ally,” Hardy said. “It’s kind of like we’re in the bigleagues now.”

Although the organization started with five peo-ple, Hardy said, it has since grown to include morethan 50 members.

According to Hardy, FACES seeks to give peoplewith epilepsy an equal chance to achieve their goals.

“We want to make sure that people with all dis-abilities are given the opportunities to succeed,”Hardy said.

Both Hardy and Nicholls battled epilepsy them-selves.

Hardy said she began having seizures once ortwice a week during her sophomore year at Cornell.She had to increase the amount of medication shewas taking, which caused her stomach lining to dete-riorate and made it difficult for her to keep fooddown.

“I wanted to stay on campus, but I had to gohome on medical leave,” Hardy said. “After I wenthome, I felt better after two or three weeks and theseizures stopped.”

Nicholls began having seizures at about the age of16. He said that in the early stages, his epilepsy wasnot yet under control — forcing him to rely heavilyon others at an age when he was trying to gain inde-pendence.

“The most difficult part of the whole experiencewas that there was no one to talk to about my frus-trations, feelings and health issues [who] could relateto what I was going through,” Nicholls said.

These personal challenges, Nicholls and Hardysaid, led them to their work with FACES.

Beyond their work at Cornell, members ofFACES also volunteer at elementary schools, dis-cussing epilepsy and their research, Nicholls said. Hesaid that FACES’ epilepsy education program hasbeen particularly popular among schools in Ithaca.

“[Hardy] has been going to these schools and talk-ing about the neuroscience behind [epilepsy],”Nicholls said. “She runs mini-labs now. She showsthese kids how it works because it really gets theminterested.”

“I really want to get the next generation of advo-cates excited,” Hardy said.

In a program called Seize the Day, FACES match-es students with epilepsy with mentors to help themmanage difficulties associated with their condition,such as the side effects of the medication they use totreat epilepsy.

“You can relate to these kids and see them bright-en up a little bit when they know they can talk about[their epilepsy], knowing that the person they’re talk-ing to has gone through the same thing,” Nichollssaid.

Hardy echoed this sentiment, saying, “We’re tak-ing epilepsy and making it normal.”

Hardy said she often felt uncomfortable dis-cussing her epilepsy with others prior to starting theorganization.

“I still feel like there’s a negative stigma aboutepilepsy, and I don’t know why that should have tohappen,” she said.

The organization has not only positively influ-enced the way the community views epilepsy, butalso personally affected Hardy and Nicholls, theysaid.

“I’m going to be carrying this with me forever out-side of Cornell,” Hardy said. “I want this to be anational organization; I want to get people involved;I want to make things better.”

Panhellenic Passes NewMedical Amnesty PolicyBy RACHEL RABINOWITZSun Staff Writer

ANDY JOHNSON / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

Local artist Camille Doucet leads a landscape painting workshop overlooking a panoramic view from the Herbert F.Johnson Museum Wednesday.

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Org. Raises Awareness About EpilepsyBy TINA AHMADISun Contributor

Rachel Rabinowitz can be reached atrrabinowitz@cornellsun.com.

One of the two female YaleUniversity students injured in aU-Haul crash at a November tail-gate party for a game betweenHarvard and Yale is filing a law-suit, seeking $15,000 in damages,according to The Harvard

Crimson.

Brown University researchershave partnered with AlliedMindstorm, a crowd-sourcingwebsite that enables public“thinkers” to brainstorm ideas in

exchange for a monetary reward,to solicit ideas and develop newtechnologies, according to TheBrown Daily Herald.

— Compiled by Danielle Sochaczevski

Tina Ahmadi can be reached attta6@cornell.edu.

“This is what it’s going to take toexpand nationally. It’s kind of likewe’re in the big leagues now.”Kaitlin Hardy ’12

“In creating this protocol, we hope to diminish any fear of seeking medical assistance in times of need.”Margo Cohen Ristorucci ’13

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Block praised these additional vacationdays, calling them “good for mental health.”

However, Prof. Rob Thorne, physics, ques-tioned the necessity of the two-day break,which would likely be in February.

“The break comes far too early,” Thornesaid. “After only several weeks of instruction,student stress has not started to mount.”

During February and March, the commit-tee held meetings with a variety of organiza-tions on campus –– including the StudentAssembly, the University Assembly, theEmployee Assembly, the Faculty Senate andOrientation Week staff –– to solicit their feed-back on the Calendar Committee’s suggestedchanges.

According to committee chair Prof. JeffDoyle, plant biology, the committee metTuesday to revise their proposal based on theresponses it received.

“What we came up with is in response to allthat feedback,” he said.

Still, many faculty members expressed dis-satisfaction with the committee’s plans.

Prof. Dick Miller, philosophy, said the lat-est proposal was “deeply flawed” — particular-ly due to the addition of long weekends to thecalendar, which he said would have a negativeimpact on introductory courses.

“As I understand it, there is still an increasein the number of short weeks in the proposal,”Miller said. “I think this is very bad … Manyintroductory courses are taught on the basis ofMonday [and] Wednesday lectures [with]Friday discussions. There’s really no time tohave an adequate development of a topic …that then makes sense in the discussion sectionif there is a short week.”

Professors also criticized the proposedshortening of finals week on the basis that itwould increase, rather than alleviate, students’

stress levels.“To say this is a stress-reduction technique

strikes me as made up,” said Prof. David Del -champs, electrical and computer engineering.

Prof. Mike Thompson, materials scienceand engineering, echoed this sentiment.

“I don’t understand how packing all finalsinto a continuous sequence reduces stress,” hesaid. “Have you talked to students about that?”

Additionally, in the revised proposal, SeniorWeek will still be shortened to four days of for-mal programming –– an adjustment that MattKoren ’12, co-chair of the Senior WeekCommittee, said will be “directly proportionalto a cut in [Senior Week] events.”

Koren said the Senior Week committeemay “bypass the Calendar Committee as awhole” if its concerns are not taken into con-sideration. He condemned both the commit-tee’s recommendations and its methodology.

“We feel that there is not enough studentrepresentation on the committee, and that thefaculty on the committee are not receptive toworking with Senior Week representatives,”Koren said. “We plan to go straight to theFaculty Senate.”

However, both Block and S.A. PresidentNatalie Raps ’12 expressed their commitmentto maintaining Senior Week.

“I definitely like … having as many SeniorWeek days … as possible,” Raps said. “I thinkthat is one of the biggest concerns of students.”

According to Jay Lee ’14, S.A. transfer at-large representative, the development ofchanges to the calendar requires “a more holis-tic conversation.”

To meet this need, Lee said that he andDan Kuhr ’13, S.A. Human Ecology represen-tative, created a survey which, among otherquestions, solicited feedback on the plan’s pro-posed changes to finals week, Senior Week andspring break.

The survey took into account the responsesof 401 participants –– which Lee said were

mostly garnered from a Facebook group towhich he invited all of his friends — andshowed a lack of student support for shorten-ing both finals week and Senior Week.

However, Lee said that the survey should beconducted on a larger scale to more accuratelyreflect student opinion.

“Although we had diversity in our data, Ipersonally don’t think 401 students is a suffi-cient size,” he said. “Dan and I are planning toput this survey, or a modified version of it, inthe S.A. monthly email so we can get feedbackfrom [the] entire undergraduate studentbody.”

Though the Faculty Senate is set to vote onthe changes at its next meeting in May, Blockemphasized that the Senate should take moretime to consider additional feedback fromboth students and faculty.

“The changes have been moving veryquick,” he said. “[Raps] and I want to slowdown the process to allow for as much feed-back as possible to be taken in. More impor-tantly, just as important, we need to have timeto get that feedback and to actually use it.”

Raps agreed that garnering feedback willrequire more time and effort on the commit-tee’s part.

“Overall, I think it’s a process that’s slowlydeveloping,” she said.

Doyle said that, if necessary, the committeeis willing to prolong discussions of thechanges.

“We would like to wrap this process upwith a vote by the end of the semester,” hesaid. “We’re still taking comments …However, I feel no strain about continuing todiscuss this.”

Alexandra Kuczynski-Brown contributedreporting to this article.

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enabled bystanders to intervene effectively and sum-mon emergency personnel,” Marchell said.

Two of the incidents took place on the ThurstonAvenue bridge and two occurred on the StewartAvenue Bridge, according to Kathy Zoner, chief ofthe Cornell University Police Department. CornellPolice intervened in three of the incidents, while aprivate citizen intervened after seeing someone onthe wrong side of the fence in the fourth, Zonersaid.

“One of our students saw someone on the otherside of the fence and had an extensive conversation[with him or her],” she said.

Zoner added that there may have been otherincidents when private citizens or members of theIthaca Police Department intervened of which she isunaware.

She also stressed that although the four individu-als were discovered climbing on the barriers orstanding on the other side of the barriers, this doesnot necessarily mean that they had suicidal inten-tions.

“All I can say is they were on the wrong side ofthe fence, or [that] they were trying to go over thefence,” she said.

However, Zoner said that the barriers have likelyhelped save lives since they were installed.

“It slowed them down to the point where theyhad to think about what they were headed towardsmaybe doing and … make a decision that wasn’t asimpulsive,” she said.

The high number of bridge-related suicides atCornell make the barriers a particularly importantmethod of means restriction, according to Marchell.

“The studies that have been done on meansrestriction on bridges have consistently shown thatwhere they’re employed, the suicides are either elim-inated or significantly reduced,” Marchell said.“With half of the suicides among Cornell studentsin the past two decades involving jumps from thebridges, it was vital that we take these steps.”

Since the spring of 2010, the University has

recorded one suicide that occurred — the death ofKen Whelan grad in November. Whelan’s death wasa suicide, according to Greg Eells, director of coun-seling and psychological services for Gannett.

Despite noting that there have been no suicidesinvolving jumping from the bridges since the fenceswere installed, Eells said that it is too early to con-clude that the barriers have been effective.

“You need at least a decade, maybe two,” he said.“Anecdotally, no one has jumped from the bridgessince the [fences] have been up.”

Sharon Dittman, associate director for commu-nity relations at Gannett, echoed Eells’ sentiments.

“We have to be really cautious when we talkabout interpreting suicide data over a short period oftime,” Dittman said. “If you look at the three plusyears prior to the suicide crisis, we had no suicides;then we had one terrible year. Now, to look at thesetwo years with only one confirmed suicide and ask,‘Is that directly attributable to what we’ve done?’ It’svery hard to say. To understand epidemiology, ratesand trends, we need to take the long view.”

The fences will be replaced this summer withpermanent nets, most of which will be under thebridges, The Sun reported in January.

Susan Murphy ’73, vice president for studentand academic services, said she considers the city’sapproval of the plan to install nets “really extraordi-nary” progress.

“It’s [after] a 40-year conversation that we finallyhave an action plan,” Murphy said. “The installa-tion of the nets on the bridges as a form of meansrestriction is absolutely cutting-edge.”

Eells said that the nets are also representative ofthe University’s overall emphasis on means restric-tion over the last two years.

“Our consultants said, ‘That’s the piece that’smissing. If you look at other national comprehen-sive models around suicide prevention, the onething that you’re not doing that they all suggest ismeans restriction,’” Eells said.

“His predecessor, Norman Scribner, is a legend,” Chamberlain said.Tucker said that he will most miss the students he taught through

his “extraordinary” 17 years at Cornell.“They’re bright; they’re motivated; they’re talented,” Tucker said.

“They’re very much doing music as a release as well as a passion.There isn’t any routine or boredom for them to doing music.”

According to Tucker, a highlight of his work with the studentsoccurred last year, when the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra foldedjust two weeks prior to a joint performance with Cornell’s choralensembles. In under two weeks, the Cornell students produced asuccessful concert on their own — hiring musicians, finding a con-cert hall and publicizing the event.

But no single anecdote can adequately describe Tucker’s timehere at Cornell. Reflecting on annual domestic tours to perfor-mances in places like China and South America, Tucker said, “Ican’t even count the memories.”

According to Chamberlain and Briggs, Tucker leaves behind apowerful legacy in the music he has brought to the choral ensem-bles.

Both the Glee Club and the Chorus commission artists each yearto compose new music for the groups to perform. According toTucker, the Chorus performs pieces written by female composers —music that offers a woman, protagonist voice in a position ofstrength.

As for the Glee Club, Tucker’s predecessor preferred a masculine,powerful sound that is traditional to men’s choirs. However,Chamberlain said that Tucker sometimes favored “a balance and abeauty of sound, a purity, crystalline, that’s a little lighter.”

In 2002, Tucker spent a sabbatical in South Africa teaching localchoirs how to read musical notation — choirs he said were “veryhungry to learn the Western canon of music.”

Tucker’s experience in South Africa “informs all the music that[he makes].” A man he met there taught him by rote a wealth of tra-ditional songs, which Tucker has since incorporated into the choralensembles’ repertoire.

“I saw firsthand that music is an expression of community. I did-n’t really understand that until I was in that really rural communi-ty, where everyone came together and sang, expressing who theywere to each other and to God,” Tucker said. “All music is like thatin some way. Everything expresses relationships. It’s not just abstractsound.”

Tucker said he is satisfied that he is not leaving a “sinking ship.”Members of the Glee Club and Chorus added that they are confi-dent the transition will be successful, if slow.

“I’m the ultimate optimist,” Tucker said. “I just think the bestthing is around the corner, always.”

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“[The students] are bright; they’re motivated;they’re talented ... There isn’t any routine orboredom for them to doing music.”Prof. Scott Tucker

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York AttorneyGeneral Eric Schneiderman is establishing abureau to review potential wrongful convictionsand streamline damage claims from those pun-ished for crimes they didn’t commit.

According to the attorney general’s office, theConviction Review Bureau will work with districtattorneys to identify cases in anticipation of possi-ble lawsuits, efficiently resolve claims by thoseunjustly convicted, review its own investigativeand prosecutorial practices to ensure reliability andestablish best practices.

“There is only one person who wins when thewrong person is convicted of a crime: the real per-petrator, who remains free to commit morecrimes,” Schneiderman said. It is imperative “tomaximize accuracy, justice, and reliability in ourjustice system,” and his office will work with coun-ty prosecutors “to address compelling claims ofinnocence,” he said.

The bureau will be led by ThomasSchellhammer, assistant attorney general and for-mer Manhattan homicide prosecutor, and BlakeZeff, senior adviser to Schneiderman.Schellhammer will be chief of the bureau and Zeffwill be director.

While noting county prosecutors have success-fully reinvestigated convictions, like the CentralPark jogger case in Manhattan, Schneiderman saidthere may be others where an outside review helps.In the jogger case, teenagers who initially confessedin police interrogations to the 1989 rape and severebeating of a woman were later exonerated afterDNA evidence and a confession implicated some-one else.

Warren County District Attorney Kate Hogan

said prosecutors “have always appreciated the seri-ousness of post-conviction review,” though prose-cutors in 40 of the state’s 62 counties have 10 orfewer attorneys to handle their entire caseload. Shewelcomed Schneiderman’s help in providing expe-rienced attorneys who will work collaborativelywith them to review cases.

Defense attorney Barry Scheck, co-director ofthe Innocence Project that has used DNA evidenceto overturn several convictions, said he hopedprosecutors will take advantage of the program.

In March, the Legislature approved and Gov.Andrew Cuomo signed a measure to require col-lecting a saliva swab of DNA from everyone con-victed of any felony and all but one misdemeanorstatewide starting in August. That will approxi-mately double collections for New York’s databaseof offenders’ genetic material, which is comparedagainst crime scene DNA.

According to New York officials, the databasehas helped identify suspects in 12,000 cases, obtainmore than 2,800 convictions and exonerate 27people wrongly convicted. The new law expandsdefense access to the databank in efforts to exoner-ate suspects through pretrial discovery and post-conviction applications to judges.

Proposals to require police videotaping of inter-rogations and “double-blind” photo arrays for wit-nesses, meant to prevent false confessions andidentification errors, were left out of the final bill.

Conviction errors have been expensive. JeffreyDeskovic won $6.5 million after spending 16 yearsin prison following his wrongful conviction of amurder in Westchester County. He was released in2006 after DNA linked the 1989 killing to anoth-er man. ‘“

Natural Gas Below $2 For First Time in a Decade

NEW YORK (AP) — The price of natural gas has fallen to its low-est level in more than a decade, a remarkable decline for a commoditythat not long ago was believed to be in short supply.

The country’s supply of natural gas is growing so fast that analystsworry the country’s underground storage facilities could be full by falland lead to further price declines.

On Wednesday, the futures price of natural gas fell to $1.984 per1,000 cubic feet, its lowest level since January 28, 2002, when the pricehit $1.91. If the price slides to $1.75, it would be the lowest sinceMarch 23, 1999.

Natural gas production has boomed across the country as energycompanies employ new drilling techniques to tap previouslyuntouched reserves. The process has raised concerns about water safe-ty, and has been temporarily banned in New York and New Jersey. Butwhere it has been allowed, it has led to increases in drilling, job growthand production.

The falling price of natural gas has been a boon to homes and busi-nesses that use the fuel for heat and appliances, and for manufacturersthat use it to power their factories and make chemicals, plastics andother materials. Another benefit: Electricity costs are lower becausenatural gas is used to generate about a quarter of the nation’s electricpower.

From October to March, households spent $868 on average on nat-ural gas, a decline of 17 percent from last winter. Those savings havehelped to relieve the burden of rising gasoline prices. Households spent$1,940 on gasoline from October to March, a 7 percent increase fromthe same period a year ago.

There is so much natural gas being produced — and still in theground — that drillers, policymakers, economists and natural gas cus-tomers are trying to figure out what to do with it. Last year, the U.S.produced an average of 63 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day, a24 percent increase from 2006. But over that period consumption hasgrown half as fast.

The low prices are hurting the companies responsible for bringinggas to market. Drilling in many fields is no longer profitable, and thestock prices of natural gas drillers are falling in anticipation of declin-ing profits and scaled-back growth plans. Some of the nation’s biggestnatural gas producers, including Chesapeake Energy, ConocoPhillipsand Encana Corp., have announced plans to slow down.

Stocks Make a U-Turn, Rising After Big Decline

NEW YORK (AP) — Investors on Wednesday all but forgot theprevious day’s burdens and sent stocks soaring. It was a stark turn-around from the day before, when they’d pushed the market into afree-fall on worries about European debt and corporate earnings in theU.S.

Those fears about problems festering on both sides of the Atlanticwere calmed thanks to a surprising profit from Alcoa and news thatborrowing costs in Spain had edged down, a potential sign thatinvestors have more faith — for now, anyway — in that country’sfinancial health.

The result was a U-turn on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrialaverage climbed as much as 129 points in early trading before settlingat 12,805.39, up 89.46 points. The previous day, it had lost 214points, the cap to its biggest and longest losing streak this year.

European markets rose, too. Stocks climbed roughly 1 percent inmajor capitals, excluding Greece, after losing 2 to 3 percent the daybefore. Treasury prices fell, signaling that investors are more willing toput money in stocks.

Other U.S. indexes also erased much of the previous day’s losses.The Standard & Poor’s 500 rose 10.12 points to 1,368.71 after losing24 points the day before. The Nasdaq composite climbed 25.24 pointsto 3,016.46 following a 56-point loss Tuesday. “

Alcoa rose more than 6 percent after reporting late Tuesday that itturned a profit in the first three months of the year and handily beatthe expectations of Wall Street analysts, who were predicting a loss.Since Alcoa is the first company in the Dow average to report earnings,its results have a greater ability to move the market compared withcompanies that report later. More first-quarter results will be releasedover the next few weeks.

Market watchers were divided over how long the gains would lastand whether Alcoa’s profits actually mean anything for the rest of theearnings season.

“I’m not predicting we’re going to have a blowout earnings quarter,”said David Armstrong, managing director of Monument WealthManagement in Alexandria, Va. “But I think if people thought earn-ings season was going to be bad, they may be pleasantly surprised.”

“One earnings report?” countered Uri Landesman, president of theNew York hedge fund Platinum Partners. The boost “will last until thefirst bad number.”

For Europe as well, investors seemed anxious to latch onto any pieceof good news. They were cheered that the rate on Spain’s 10-year bondsdropped slightly after nearing 6 percent on Tuesday. Seven percent isgenerally considered the rate at which it becomes too expensive for acountry to borrow money.

Investors chose, largely, to ignore other signs blaring that problemsin Europe are only hibernating and not solved. Spain’s borrowing costsare still dangerously high. Italy sold 12-month bonds but was forced topay more than double the interest rate it paid last month. EvenGermany, whose bonds are considered a safer investment, failed to sellall the 10-year bonds it had intended to.

N.Y. Attorney General to ReviewPotential Wrongful Convictions

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The Martin Family | The family of Trayvon Martin, the teenager who was fatally shot by crime watch volun-teer George Zimmerman, listened to the prosecutor charge Zimmerman with second-degree murder Wednesday.

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Zimmerman Arrest Follows Puzzling Disappearance

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The neighborhoodwatch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin to deathhad been out of touch and, his ex-lawyer says, “a lit-tle bit over the edge” before his arrest on a second-degree murder charge.

As George Zimmerman turned himself inWednesday in the Feb. 26 shooting of the unarmedblack teen, experts offered this advice: Stop talking.

“My advice to the client would be, ‘Save it forthe trial. It can't help you.’” said Roy Kahn, aMiami defense attorney,.

The 28-year-old Sanford man was in custody inFlorida after a puzzling disappearance that had hislawyers expressing concern for his health andannouncing they couldn’t represent him anymore.Zimmerman had called special prosecutor AngelaCorey, his former lawyers said, had an off-the-record chat with a Fox News Channel host and putup a website asking supporters for money.

“It would not be in a client’s best interest to giveany statement before it’s his time to testify attrial,”Kahn said. “For him to give a statement, sincehe already has given an interview to the police, anyadditional statement at the State Attorney’s Officewould just create the possibility of him creatingconflict with his previous statements.”

Zimmerman’s new attorney, Mark O’Mara, saidafter his client’s arrest Wednesday that Zimmerman“is very concerned about the charges, but he isOK.”

“I’m not concerned about his mental well

being,” O'Mara said.Former lawyers Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig on

Tuesday portrayed Zimmerman as erratic, said hehadn’t returned their calls and texts and was buck-ling under the pressure that has built in the monthsince the shooting.

Jack Schafer, a professor at Western IllinoisUniversity and a former FBI behavioral analyst, saidZimmerman's behavior shouldn’t cause undue con-cern. After all, Schafer said, he wasn’t charged withany crime and was free to go wherever he wantedafter he spoke to authorities after the shooting.

“If I were him, I’d go somewhere in hiding,” saidSchafer. “His life is at risk, not by jurisprudence,but by angry people who are rushing to judgment.”

Leslie Garfield, a Pace University law professorin New York, said Zimmerman’s behavior over thelast 48 hours should not affect his prosecution.

“Whatever else goes on behind the scenes beforecharges aren't really a factor,” she said. “All thatshould matter is what his intentions were at thetime of the shooting.”

Zimmerman showed the strain in his own wordson his website, bearing the American flag.

“As a result of the incident and subsequentmedia coverage, I have been forced to leave myhome, my school, my employer, my family andultimately, my entire life,” he wrote. “This website’ssole purpose is to ensure my supporters they arereceiving my full attention without any intermedi-aries.”

Two USC Students from ChinaFatally Shot Off-Campus

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gunfire shattered the window of theBMW near the University of Southern California campus just aftermidnight, striking two Chinese graduate students inside.

The driver was able to make it from the car, through the rain, to ahouse where he pounded on the door pleading for help.

Ying Wu and Ming Qu, who police say were believed to have beendating, were dead by the time they got to the hospital Wednesdaymorning as police spread out looking for a killer suspected of bunglinga carjacking.

The slayings shook the campus, which has a large international stu-dent population, and laid bare a parent’s worst nightmare: having theirchild harmed in a faraway place.

At USC, the international student presence is enormous — it hasthe largest number of any university in the U.S. Roughly 19 percent ofthe school’s 38,000 students are from overseas, including 2,500 fromChina.

And some students said the shooting could be a cautionary tale forothers who want to study overseas.

“If parents hear about this in China, it might affect their decision,”said Chrissy Yao, a Chinese-American who moved to the U.S. whenshe was 10 and is a senior engineering student. “Since two lives werelost, I think concerns will remain for quite a while.”

Police said the shooting occurred around 1 a.m. and may have beena robbery or a carjacking attempt. Witnesses said the car was in theroadway, not at the curb, at the time of the shooting.

Gloria Tigolo lives on the tree-lined street of two-story homes andapartment buildings and said she heard a gunshot. She said she wentdownstairs but didn’t go outside because it was raining.

Investigators said earlier that several shots were fired at the couple.Four people have been killed this year in the area, police said, but

violent crime in the area is down 20 percent this year. Neighborhoodwatch signs are posted along the street and police were trying to deter-mine if there are any surveillance cameras in the area.

Tigolo said she would often see Wu, 23, in the neighborhood, wear-ing dark sunglasses but rarely saw her drive.

Qu managed to get out of the car and run to a nearby home, wherehe pounded on the door, police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said. It wasn’tknown if anyone answered the door before the man collapsed. Quwould have celebrated his 24th birthday on Thursday.

The gunman fled on foot, and no description has been yet releasedby authorities.

Obama-Romney ShowdownStarts Off With a Harsh Tone

MENDENHALL, Pa. (AP) — The 2012 presidential general elec-tion has begun. It won’t be pretty.

Tuesday marked Day One, in essence, of the contest between thetwo virtually certain nominees, Republican Mitt Romney andDemocratic President Barack Obama. Rick Santorum’s departureremoved the last meaningful bump from Romney’s path to the GOPnomination. Romney and Obama wasted no time in portraying thevoters’ choice in dire, sometimes starkly personal terms.

“The campaign started yesterday, the general election campaign,”Romney said Wednesday on Fox News when pressed on how he wouldcounter continued Democratic attacks that he is an out-of-touch richguy. “It’s a little early in the process.”

With Obama saddled with a still-ailing economy and a divisivehealth care law, and Romney riding a wave of blistering TV ads, the fallelection is unlikely to dwell on “hope,” “change” and other upliftingthemes from four years ago. Much of the nation’s ire then was aimed atdeparting President George W. Bush, and Obama had no extensiverecord to defend.

The landscape is much different now. Voters face nearly sevenmonths of hard-hitting jabs and counterpunches between the two par-ties’ standard-bearers.

Romney, the former Massachusetts governor making his secondpresidential bid, now has to unify his party, build out a general electioncampaign and start answering big questions like who he will choose asa running mate. He insisted Wednesday that conservatives will unitebehind him and said he believes Santorum will campaign with himagainst Obama. He also suggested he is considering one of his formalrivals for the presidential ticket.

“There’s a large number of people in the Republican party who areextraordinary leaders, including some of those who have run in this lastcontest with me, and so we’ll go through that list and decide who couldpotentially become a president if that were necessary,” he told FoxNews.

The presumptive nominee attacked Obama with gusto Tuesday inhis two public events that followed Santorum’s surprising announce-ment.

Campaigning in Pennsylvania, where an April 24 GOP primary issuddenly less important than its likely role as a battleground state thisfall, Romney portrayed Obama as a weak leader who apologizes forAmerica’s greatness and prefers European-style socialism over robustfree enterprise. Obama’s allies call such claims nonsense.

“The right course for America is not to divide America,” Romneytold a GOP dinner gathering in Mendenhall, near Philadelphia.“That’s what he’s doing,” he said of Obama. “His campaign is all aboutfinding Americans to blame and attack, and find someone to tax more,someone who isn’t giving, isn’t paying their fair share.”

He said Obama prefers “a government-centered society.”

OPINION

The Corne¬ Daily SunIndependent Since 1880

130TH EDITORIAL BOARD

If you’ve ever strolled into a prelimfeeling like you’re walking intoPompeii right before Mt. Vesuvius

erupted, I feel you. If you’ve everwalked out of the same test feeling likeyou need a date with your most loyalcomrades, Ben and Jerry (or possiblyCaptain Morgan), I’ve been there anddone that too. There were a couple ofnights that I even came home andcried (ahem, chemistry). The numberof times I’ve legitimately whipped outa can of whoop-ass on a test can becounted on one hand. Most of thetime my performance is about averageor I just get plain bulldozed.

I wasn’t always like this. I used to

overachieve like a mofo in highschool. Remember the “Cornell Classof ” Facebook groups that hosted dis-cussion boards where all the prefroshlisted their academic stats like theywere still fighting for a spot in the newfreshmen class? Let me be the first toraise my hand because I was one ofthose tools. I proudly listed my 4.56GPA, top five percent class ranking,10 AP test scores and a mile-long listof extracurricular activities.

If any of you could see my tran-scripts now, in which the highestgrade is an A- and my GPA is a 2.89,you’d be like, what happened? Well, toput it simply, life happened.

Not in a teen pregnancy or parents-go t -murdered-have - to - suppor t -younger-siblings kind of way. I didn’tget knocked up or acquire a full timejob, I merely stopped making mygrades the primary focus of my life.This is not to say that I fail to turn inquality work, but simply that I’veshifted my priorities so that some-times schoolwork takes a backburnerto other things.

I like to justify myself like this.We’re students, so on most formswhere we have to list our occupation,we put Full-time Student. Being a stu-dent is literally correlatable to a career.If you met someone on the street whotold you that they routinely got fouror five hours of sleep per nightbecause their career path demanded it,you’d probably think they were insane.Yet I have friends who regularly dothis to get work done. I’ve also nevermet a real-life anyone who pulls all-nighters for their job — not to saythat this doesn’t happen, but by nomeans is it as common as it is on a col-lege campus. If these nocturnal habitshit you a little close to home, I havesome advice for you: C’s get degrees.

It is some of the best advice that Igot as a freshman from the class of2009 and it made me realize that we asa society put entirely too much stockin grades.

I used to have a superiority com-plex about C’s. In my mind peoplewho got Cs were almost like lesser lifeforms. And while that’s a painful truthto admit, it’s basically true. I used tojudge people so hard for getting C’swhen I would get A’s without even try-ing. But now that I’m on the flip sideof that scenario, it makes it much eas-ier to empathize.

Judging me as a person based sole-ly on what my transcripts say isn’t just

stupid, it’s ignorant. Deborah Liuwrote a column about how she feltthat her resume didn’t do her justice inexpressing who she was. I would saythat the same goes for my transcripts.Yes I have a D on my transcript. Yesit’s dominated by grades in the Brange. But if you think you can accu-rately predict how well I’m going todo in the future by stamping somealphabet soup on a piece of paper, youare wrong. A’s are not the only way toprove that you have the ability anddrive to work hard and succeed at life.Just look at Mark Zuckerberg.Stockpile of riches besides, he seemslike he’s doing pretty well for himself— and the man is a college dropout.

I try my best to measure my tri-umphs not by the standards of others(*cough*premeds*cough*), but by myown. If I think I did a good job (andlet’s be honest, we all know the differ-ence between turning in crappy workand good work) but I don’t get thegrade I feel I deserve, my world doesnot come crashing down around me. Iget back in the saddle and take onanother rodeo.

In 10 years I am not going to givea shit about the grade I got on a paperor how I did on a prelim. All thatreally matters at Cornell in terms ofacademics is that you leave here witha degree. If C’s are how you get there,all the more power to you. So thenext time a prelim violates you in theway that prelims are wont to do, hitme up. My favorite flavor is PhishFood.

C-ing It From The Other Side

Sam Dean

Casual WTFery

Sam Dean is a senior in the College ofAgriculture and Life Sciences. She may bereached at sdean@cornellsun.com. CasualWTFery appears alternate Thursdays thissemester.

WORKING ON TODAY’S SUN

PRESIDENT DAVID SKORTON has issued a promise that no fewer than 50 per-cent of undergraduates will have an international experience — defined as studying,holding an internship or going on a service trip in a foreign country –– by the time theygraduate. We commend President Skorton for recognizing the valuable educational expe-rience that students can gain from going abroad. However, the administration shouldstrive to maximize the quality of study abroad experiences, not just the quantity of them.

Currently, 27 percent of Cornellians go abroad. Many Cornellians spend their timeabroad enriching themselves in foreign cultures, perfecting a foreign language or study-ing at an institution that offers programs Cornell does not. In several of Cornell’s col-leges, however, the requirements are less stringent and do not require those studyingabroad to have any knowledge of the language of the place where they are studying.These students will spend time in the company of Americans without ever fully experi-encing the culture of the location in which they are studying, using their time abroadmore as a vacation than as a learning experience.

Instead of working to increase the number of students studying abroad, the adminis-tration should strongly consider altering the requirements of those studying abroad tomake the experiences more meaningful. One possible suggestion would be to add a lan-guage requirement for study abroad across all of the colleges. In order to make the abroadexperience more enriching, students could engage in a meaningful research project orwork on a community service project. This will not only broaden the potential for goodthat these students can perform, but it will also open their eyes to problems around theworld. Visiting cultural landmarks is not the beginning or the end of a cultural learningexperience abroad.

Finally, we believe that the administration should remember that not all students aretruly given the opportunity to study abroad. Cornell offers financial aid opportunitiesand grants to make going abroad as affordable as possible. Yet, the fact remains that manycountries have high costs of living that make abroad trips cost-prohibitive for some. Thepush to increase the number of students with international experiences should come witha significant financial commitment to make these experiences accessible to allCornellians.

We commend President Skorton’s goals, but we know that not all international expe-riences are alike. The administration should do its best to ensure that Cornellians’ expe-riences abroad are as meaningful and constructive as possible and equally accessible to allstudents.

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CORRECTION

A news article Wednesday, “Skorton Responds to Affirmative Action SupremeCourt Case,” incorrectly linked a portion of a statement made by President DavidSkorton to his discussion of an affirmative action Supreme Court case. In fact, hewas speaking at the time about the University’s handling of Title IX cases.

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Thursday, April 12, 2012 9OPINION

Hello prospective students. Welcometo Cornell, and congratulations onpicking up The Sun aka, the best

paper in the Ivy League (okay that’s a per-sonal belief, but where else do you get “classacts” like myself writing in the school paper?Certainly not at Penn). Furthermore, con-gratulations on making it to the opinion sec-tion. Let me introduce you to myself and theother writers this wonderful Thursday.Opposite me is Sam Dean who you shoulddefinitely read if you want a laugh. My col-umn is also kind of funny on good days(seriously though, it’s actually really funny,but unfortunately for you I will have gradu-ated by the time you will be reading The Sunevery day. Bummer for you). Also there is thePatricia Kim who I am sure is going to writesomething with a lot more content thaneither Sam or I.

Anyway, as I was saying, congratulationson making it to Cornell. It is a pretty magi-cal place (not the kind of place with dragonsand goblins — I know, I was disappointedtoo when I first got here — but the kindwhere it is generally amazing). Since some ofyou are apparently undecided aboutenrolling here, I thought I would dedicatethis column to convincing you to attend theland of lollipop forests and peanut brittlehouses (like Candyland, only better).

First of all, is it really even a question?Let’s assume you applied to all of the IvyLeague schools and you were accepted by allof them. Columbia is out of the runningbecause they are pretty much the worst atsports in the Ivy League. They don’t evenhave a hockey team. Cross off Yale; they havea lot of grade inflation (you want to work foryour grades, right?). Say no to Harvard. It

smells like fish (or at least that’s what Iassume since we throw fish at their hockeyteam). Princeton is in New Jersey … I guessthat’s pretty self-explanatory. If you chooseBrown you will always be answering thequestion: “Did you see Hermione in classtoday?” which is bound to get annoying.Dartmouth is even more in the middle ofnowhere than Cornell. That leaves UPenn.Penn could be an okay choice I guess, butdoes Penn have a Hotel School? Nope. So incase you change your mind once you startcollege and decide you want to make boat-loads of money after you graduate workingin hospitality and being paid to drink goodwine, you should probably just come toCornell to be safe.

Also, aside from playfully ripping on allthe other Ivy League schools (I stress playful-ly, because I really am kidding) Cornell hasmany other great things. For instance, wehave an enormous campus full of huge hills.You will never have to worry about gainingthe freshman 15 (Did I mention the foodhere is delicious?) even if you never step footin the gym once. Sure you may show up toclass all sweaty with your feet on fire, but justthink of how you are cutting your risk forheart disease.

We also have a town dedicated to college.Yes, the mysterious Collegetown. You mayhave only heard rumors — that jungle ofrestaurants, upperclassmen and liquor —but it does exist. The administration will doanything to keep you away (just like JiminyCricket tried to keep Pinocchio out ofToyland, so he doesn’t turn into a donkey),but it is actually a really great place with pret-ty much anything you may need as a collegestudent and a brand new FroYo place (Does

Dartmouth have one of those? To be honestI have no idea, but let’s go with no).

Also it is important to let you know thatwe do all in fact know what is going on. I feellike this is necessary to say since there aremany prospective students on campus thistime of year and they often look confused orlost. Current Cornell students are not lost(well, sometimes we are when it comes toclasses) so those people with their parents

that look lost are in fact other prospectivestudents.

Okay put this paper down and lookaround you. See that. Isn’t it pretty? Cornell’scampus is gorges … (I feel like I sold outwriting that, but I think I am just going toleave it). If you haven’t been looking aroundyou and been enthralled by the waterfallsand cliffs and rolling green hills then you areprobably from Ithaca.

If you do end up coming to Cornell, hereare some things that will undoubtedly hap-pen to you:

You will become smarter•You will learn what it means to be cold•You will carry an umbrella at all times•You will learn a bunch of awesome•(though in the grand scheme of things,

useless) acronymsYou will own upwards of 15 items of•clothing that say Cornell on themYou will try a lot of amazing things you•never thought you would tryYou will learn how to deal with stress•You will meet an engineer (they don’t•hide away at Cornell like they do atother schools)You will (with 90 percent certainty)•

become more preppyYou will put your arm around a random•stranger and sway back and forth withthem when you hear the Alma-MaterYou will eat at a place known as Nasties•and most importantly,You will think Cornell is the best Ivy•League school or just the best school ingeneral.

That was your impromptu lesson aboutCornell. Now all that is left to say is this:COME TO CORNELL!!Trust me.

Perspective for the Prospectives

WillSpencer

Tripping Up Stairs

Will Spencer is a senior in the College of Agricultureand Life Sciences. He may be reached at wspencer@cor-nellsun.com. Tripping Up Stairs appears alternateThursdays this semester.

College students are prone to comparing difficultexams to the criminal act of physical violation.Now, I’ve had my share of exams. Bad exams.

Catastrophically painful exams. The kind of exams wherethe back of your head throbs for the entirety of the examin double consciousness, with one half struggling in vainto remain calm and finish the impossible while the otherduly contemplates the repercussions the eminent failurewill have on already bleak prospects. But exams akin torape?

A bit melodramatic, really, that analogy. And vastlyrepulsive.

From what I’ve seen, which I realize is not necessarilyreflective of general reality, the use of rape as slang hasbeen met with comparatively little discouragement, atleast amongst college students. The use of “gay” in thepejorative sense has been actively discouraged in recentyears in light of achievements in gay rights activism. “Fag”has become a big no no for the same reason. “Retarded”has always caused that one Miss Goodie Two-Shoes of thegroup to pipe in and have us think about how offensive itwould be to those who actually suffer from mental retar-dation. But “rape” has been treated with surprisingly cav-alier nonchalance in its use as casual slang. I suppose it

must be because it is self evident that rape victims find thefrequent comparison of their plight to some biology examor some other mundane disappointments of daily life ariot.

Language is not literal, especially not slang. I under-stand that. I understand that when someone calls a trai-tor a fucking bastard in a violent exchange of words, he isnot referencing the nightlife of his nemesis nor question-ing the legitimacy of his birth. He is simply calling out hisnemesis, an extreme in the category of abhorrent exis-tences. I understand that swear words such as shit andcrap do not necessarily undermine the biological impor-

tance of fecal matter, whichas we all know is very, as theproduct of crucial digestivefunctions that exterminatethe toxins within. I under-stand that in much the samemanner the way the figura-tive use of “kill” does nottrivialize actual murder, thefigurative use of rape should

theoretically be similarly innocuous.Theoretically.Rape, like all verbs, can be organized into one of two

categories: active or passive. As in, raping or being raped.I can stomach the passive usage of rape, because it tan-gentially makes sense. The analogy is, you felt grossly vio-lated and victimized by an event that in your world wasas terrible as being raped, be it failing a difficult exam orthe accidental blast of Bieber in the ear. And you are usingrape to highlight the gravity of your disgust with the sit-uation. I’ve grown largely immune to such dysphemisticuse of rape.

But the particular usage of rape that continues to dis-turb me is the active use, which, without fail, is used pos-itively. Rape, the heinously criminal assault in the literalsense, is used in active slang to express joy, achievementand victory. YouTubers rape the replay button on Adelebecause they like her music. The home team hopes torape the visitors at the homecoming game. Cornelliansrape that math exam hard after several all nighters. Andin the jubilant aftermath, frape a friend’s facebook page asa good joke.

To liken joyful achievement to the perpetration of ahighly intimate and graphic crime that continues to vic-timize too many is simply wrong. And those who use it insuch a manner sound crass, insensitive and just plain stu-pid. And I know I made the completely moronic analogyof the use of rape to the use of kill simply because othersmake it to advocate the free use of rape in language. Butin reality, it is a terrible analogy. Rape is a verb unlike anyother. It is a term charged with a powerful emotion formany, denoting a graphic crime, and so it should retainall its gravity. Free from nonsensical analogies and expres-sions of bravado tacked on by teens with arrested vocab-ularies.

I don’t know why language develops the way it does,but it often develops as to reflect the worst vices of soci-ety. Fear. Homophobia. Callousness towards the suffer-ings of others. And when it does, let’s at least take theconscientious initiative to keep in check such unflatteringdevelopments. After all, language speaks for who we are,literally.

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Locally grown foods havebecome a huge part of daily livinghere in Ithaca. No longer are thehippies the only ones looking forfresher, healthier, and less traveledproduce. The restaurants and eater-ies we love the most have incorpo-rated this trend into their routinecooking as well, providing theircustomers with guaranteed satisfac-tion and the ultimate benefit ofhealthy living. The farm-to-forktrend has penetrated all walks of theeating world, coming to you in awide range of delicious options.

THE CLASSIC MARKET: THEITHACA FARMERS’ MARKET. Every -one loves a farmers’ market, andIthaca’s is no exception to the rule.Even if a Saturday morning trip tothe farmers’ market doesn’t soundlike your thing, I assure you’ll enjoyfeeling earthy with the rest of thegranola bunch. Blissfully strollingalong the waterfront while listen-ing to live music, not to mentionthe market itself can never disap-point. The Ithaca Farmers’ Marketis a cooperative of 150 vendorswho promise to source their deli-cious produce within 30 miles ofthe market. Providing the freshestofferings veggies, humanely raised

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YOUR FAVORITE BRUNCHPLACE: CARRIAGE HOUSE. Nolocal restaurant serves brunch likethe Carriage House, and no oneloves brunch more than Cornellstudents. Not only do we pine forthis menu that’s packed with deca-dent items, from the brie-stuffedFrench toast, crafted from in-housebrioche, fresh local eggs, and servedto perfection with local DelevanFarms maple syrup and homemade

raspberry coulis, but we reap thebenefits of local and regional ingre-dients used in the omelets, saladsand sandwiches. The delectabledishes are based on the availabilityand quality of ingredients, ensur-ing optimum health and tasteresults. Some of the local farmswhose products stock the menuinclude: Stick & Stone,Remembrance Farm, Indian CreedOrchard and Three SwallowsFarm. The poultry items on themenu come from humanely raisedchickens and the beef for theCarriage House Burger comesfrom the grass-fed cows of High

Point Farms in Trumansburg.Apart from utilizing local sources,the Carriage House also caresabout using the finest ingredients,baking its own breads in its stone-deck oven and whipping up eventhe most basic sauces (like ketchupand mayonnaise). When dining atthe Carriage House, you know thatthe most love, care and effort havebeen put into your meal to pre-serve your happiness and health.

YOUR SHAMELESSLY HEAVYMEAL PLACE: THE PIGGERY. Withbarely anything that doesn’t comefrom a pig, The Piggery’s menuboasts the freshest and most deli-cious pork around with localgreens and freshly baked bread toaccompany. The Piggery pledges towork by three guiding principles:sustainability, convenience anddeliciousness, all words that singluxury to my ears as I sit down fora meal. The Piggery was foundedby two Cornell graduates, who,after some inevitable post-gradsoul searching, finally decided tostart a pig farm and give us thislovely eatery. They raise heirloombreeds of pigs on pasture, with afocus on minimizing their carbonfootprint to create pork dishes that

are good for people, the land andas much as possible, the pigs. Thepork is then turned into charcu-terie on their own farm and thenmade to serve at The Piggery. Allof their food can be eaten quickly(because it’s outstandingly tasty)— so that takes care of conve-nience. The Three Little Pigs are aperfect example of the quality ofpork at The Piggery: A pulled porkslider, a pig dog and a carnitas taco.Each is delectable in its own way:the taco is one of the best tacosaround, and the pig dog is my per-sonal favorite hot dog of all time.Not only does the food deliverwith the utmost deliciousness, butthe space itself is also sunlight-filled and catered by refreshinglypleasant employees.

Eateries like these are poppingup everywhere, and more places aretrying to incorporate local ingredi-ents into their menus. Whether ornot we truly care about the healthbenefits or the support for localeconomies, the local foods move-ment is making its way into ourhearts and into our stomachs.

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It’s hard to answer exactly how Matthew Ward, knownby his exceptionally ordinary stage name M. Ward, hasacquired an ever-growing fan base over the past 10-plusyears. The easy answer would be to owe it all to ZooeyDeschanel, his wide-eyed sidekick in the retro pop outfitShe & Him. But compared to the adorkable vocalist,Ward is just the shy guy behind her, strumming melodieswith the rest of the background group. Maybe it’s hisresigned guest spots on Bright Eyes and My MorningJacket albums, which resulted in the 2009 supergroupMonsters of Folk. Even then, Ward was often in the shad-ows of his big-name buddies Conor Oberst and JimJames. Whatever the answer is, Ward’s seldom-noticedsolo efforts, from 2003’s solemn Transfiguration of Vincentto 2009’s bubbly Hold Time speak for themselves. Themeticulously crafted yet effortless guitar work on each ofhis solo outings, including the latest one, A WastelandCompanion, is so great that it makes us wonder why thehell he wastes so much time with his far inferior contem-poraries. After dedicating some years to She & Him andMonsters of Folk, A Wasteland Companion finds Wardback in his element, even though he hasn’t really evolvedmusically.

If Hold Time found Ward in a particularly cheerymood with tunes so catchy they ended up in beer ads, AWasteland Companion features Ward as the reluctantcelebrity, taking the energy down a notch and shying awayfrom attention. He’s far mellower than in previous solo

jaunts as evidenced by opener “Clean Slate,” with thatlush guitar melody we’ve come to know and love fromWard’s body of work. He practically whispers the words ofthe song as his falsetto echoes over hushed layers of strings.It’s almost as if Ward is ashamed of his exemplary talent;even the lead single “Primitive Girl,” a piano-driven retropop ode, features despondent vocals and deceptively lacksthe bounciness its opening notes promise, let alone Ward’ssignature instrument. But the title track is perhaps mostevocative of Ward’s glaring discomfort; his subdued vocalsand isolated strumming over the sound effect of abustling, impatient crowd let us envision the musicianalone on an empty stage with nowhere to hide from thespectators’ eyes.

Ward doesn’t just shy away from the animated pop thatpervades his past work, solo and otherwise, by strippingdown his sound; on the contrary, he gets quite angry, bothat himself and at the fans he has attracted in more recentyears with his commercial success. Ward’s fury could notbe more evident than on “Me and My Shadow,” a ragingtell-off to his public persona that also happens to be thebest track on the album. Ward’s voice has never been morecommanding and he has never shredded his guitar moreferociously. Unfortunately, this new distortion that Wardexplores on “Me and My Shadow” only appears briefly,but his guitar’s violent outburst is a hopeful move in a newdirection for the indie folk veteran. On “Watch theShow,” Ward lashes out at the spectators for his appear-

ances on late night TV; he sardonically demands theirattention with an ominous growl, a clear indicator ofWard’s crippling uneasiness with himself and his own tal-ent. But it’s not all gloom and doom on A WastelandCompanion; Deschanel makes a vivacious appearance onthe jolly “Sweetheart,” and Ward expresses his secretadmiration for his beloved on the rollicking swing tune “IGet Ideas.” The juxtaposition of Ward’s happy and pissed-off moods is questionable; while the different attitudes heevokes on the record result in individually decent songs,they don’t necessarily fit well together on the same album.

It’s difficult to say whether Ward’s attempt to detachhimself from the sound that has catapulted him into thepublic eye makes A Wasteland Companion a better albumthan his previous ones; while the mood and arrangementsare certainly different this time around, they’re not neces-sarily better and do not exhibit any real growth on Ward’spart. There is nothing bad to say about A WastelandCompanion, but there’s nothing that stands out, either.The album will neither earn Ward new fans nor shy awayhis longtime followers. A Wasteland Companion is, for lackof a more descriptive term, just another M. Ward album:the product of an immensely talented musician, thor-oughly enjoyable throughout and without an ounce ofpretention or gimmick.

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It’s been five long years since we have heard anythingfrom the dark dance synthpop band Chromatics. That’sbecause the mastermind of the project, Johnny Jewel, hasbeen busy. He released albums from two other music pro-jects (Glass Candy and Desire), formed a label, producedother artists’ work and wrote a score for last year’s Drive thatwound up unused (he released it anyway). All that madelast year’s announcement of Kill For Love a pleasant sur-prise, and anticipation built as the band steadily leaked newsongs. After many delays from the original January releasedate, Chromatics posted their album on iTunes last week ina very anti-climactic fashion. It didn’t matter thoughbecause the album, all 90 minutes of it, was finally here.

Even though Jewel is responsible for much ofChromatics’ style, it would be unfair to focus on him.Chromatics is not just Jewel; in fact, he wasn’t even an orig-inal member. Although Jewel’s style is readily recognizablein later Chromatics discography, the other band membersmake their presence clear with their stylistic modifications.Lead singer Ruth Radelet’s breathy, introverted soft vocalsstand in stark contrast to Jewel’s menacing synthesizer.Guitarist Adam Miller’s riffs penetrate through heavy synthlayers characteristic of Jewel’s other music projects.

In earlier albums the other members’ presence was subtle,blending into the background and letting Jewel do his thing.But something happened in the five long years between NightDrive and Kill for Love, for the latter reveals a surprisinglybold Chromatics at their most stylistically diverse. Albumopener “Into the Black” is, of all things, a faithful synth-freecover of Neil Young’s “My My, Hey Hey.” Whether inten-

tional or not, such an opener sends a clear message thatChromatics were not the same people five years ago.

Music critics have been slapping the band with the“Italo Disco” label, a subgenre of disco music from Italy inthe 80s that died quickly enough to avoid scoring SaturdayNight Fever yet slowly enough to influence modern elec-tronic dance. Italo Disco is a misplaced moniker for theband because the subgenre is characterized by, for the lackof a better phrase, fabulous glamour. Chromatics, on theother hand, create bleak, post-punk-inspired atmospheres.If anything, their music is more like the work New Ordermade between Ian Curtis’ suicide and the release of“Everything’s Gone Green”: a mixture of very dark post-punk and disco with a heavy emphasis on electronic exper-imentation.

Such similarity makes itself clear with the title track. Thesprawling four-minute track starts off with early NewOrder-like electronic arpeggios and guitars before droppingoff to Radelet’s vocals. “Everybody’s got a secret to hide,”she sings with sad resignation, “Everyone is slipping back-wards.” Radelet replicates a broken heart’s cinematicdepression and desperation, retreating from the world tocope. She puts a pillow over her face, takes pills to feel allright, and waits for change even though the world stays thesame. “But I killed for love,” she consoles herself uneasily,and then repeats it again in a more determined manner asa soaring guitar gives her self-consolation and anthemicquality. It is a preciously brief melody, and it still executes amood so specific and relatable; all these things put it on ashortlist for one of the best songs of the year.

The title track may be concise, but the album as a wholeis not. Kill For Love is uncannily similar to M83’s Hurry Up,We’re Dreaming: Both have their best song as the secondtrack, have other great moments and have too much filler.Too often the songs drag out into pointless ambient exper-imentation that go nowhere and contribute nothing to thealbum. The worst offender is the 14-minute “No Escape,”an aimless minimal soundscape of found noise that theband didn’t even bother to include in the vinyl. The firsthalf of Kill For Love is concise and screams “top album ofthe year,” but after “These Streets Will Never Look theSame,” the album drags into instrumentals that are justplain boring and detract from what could have been a com-prehensively great album. That the album was already cutdown from 37 tracks is troubling in itself. If the album wasfurther whittled down to an hour, cutting out unnecessarysongs and elements, the intense buzz surrounding thealbum’s release would have been wholly justified.

Nevertheless, the filler does not mean that the album isa letdown or that you should avoid it; other great tracks like“The River” and “Back From the Grave” make up for someof the bloat. It’s still one of the better releases of the year sofar, and is a great starting point for those who have neverheard the band’s music. Chromatics are onto something,but hopefully in the future Johnny Jewel will get better atelectronic experimentation and the rest of the band willtake an axe to their own songs.

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ChromaticsKill for LoveItalians Do It Better

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M. WardA Wasteland CompanionMerge Records

COURTESY OF ITALIANS DO IT BETTER

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Sydney Ramsden is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture andLife Sciences. She can be reached at sramsden@cornellsun.com.

Kai Sam Ng is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.He can be reached at kng@cornellsun.com.

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In these column inches, I have managed to praise numerousartists, including Long Island emo world championsTaking Back Sunday, metal gods Iron Maiden, absurdist

electro-rappers Die Antwoord, the ubiquitously-heard CarlyRae Jepsen, eternal hype machine victims Arctic Monkeys,introspective ambient savant The Field and even cheese-tastichard rockers Van Halen. Despite accusations to the contrary,I’ve tried my best to, in financier’s terms, diversify my portfo-lio. In order to actually be knowledgeable about music, onecannot count an entire genre out due to a need for snobbishexclusionism. Indeed, even Nashville country — a musicalstyle that is often maligned for its slick production and hack-neyed songwriting — has contributed a couple of solid tunesto the annals of music history (if you don’t like Toby Keith’s“Red Solo Cup,” there’s something wrong with you).

Despite my idyllic calls for egalitarianism among the con-stantly warring factions of musicality (okay, please excuse mefor watching too much Game of Thrones recently), there aresome scenes that just seem a little … off. Artists within thesegenres appear on blogs seemingly primed for ridicule. HipsterRunoff probably gave thema silly name and they prob-ably evoke a peculiar set ofimages, but it doesn’t neces-sarily mean that the musicis worthless. Here’s a run-down of some things thatcaught my eye.

Genre: ElectrofolkWhile electrofolk

sounds like the type ofgenre one would reference in a parody of Pitchfork Media, it’sgot a very simple and, admittedly, agreeable aesthetic: a mix ofacoustic instruments playing folksy melodies while electronicsprovide the beat and various flourishes. It’s been stricken witha horrendous name, but it’s far from a throwaway field. FourTet, a favorite of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, is oftencredited with pioneering the genre with his debut album Pauseback in 2001. Owen Pallett, noted string arranger for ArcadeFire and The Last Shadow Puppets, is also deemed part of thisgenre. The real problem with the name electrofolk (or, alter-natively, folktronica) is that it overspecifies what the rest of theworld would call “indie rock” or “electronica.” Definitely.

Can I have this music in my library without seeming likean unbearable douche? Yes, but just label it like a sane personwould.

Genre: Bouncy HouseAlso known as “donk,” this style of melodic dance music

uses bass drums distorted into bouncy-sounding square waves

amid typical techno sounds derived from scenes in Detroitand Scotland to create hardcore rave-ups perfect for takingecstasy to. Did all that make no sense? Okay, it sounds likewhat you’d listen to if you were a guido toddler playing in abouncy house at a rich kid’s birthday party while hopped upon Pixie Stix, except not as fun. The “gabber,” as the basssound is called, sounds duly antiquated, only 20 yearsremoved from its heyday and, frankly, it probably didn’t soundall that great then. Over it all, British rappers with no sense offlow or lyricism bark orders to “put a donk on it.” It’s as badas you think it is, but worse.

Can I have this music in my library without seeming likean unbearable douche? Probably not, although it’d probablybe good music to play in order to empty out a house party thathas gotten out of control.

Genre: K-PopChalk up another victory for Western cultural hegemony!

But really, K-Pop songs, aside from the Korean lyrics, soundlike the type of productions that make stars out of prepubes-cent Canadian boys who idolize Usher. The videos and

imagery, though, are whatmake it seem kind of crazy:they feature an array of colors,flashing lights and, most of all,classic choreography. While it’shard for me to really pinpointany artist worthy of your atten-tion, the nine-member Girls’Generation seems like a futuris-tic version of the Spice Girls (aspredicted by Blade Runner) and

make videos that seem like Gaga-esque pop events. Basically,it’s shameless pop music obsessed with futurism, CGI andchoruses with lasers set to kill. All of it surely isn’t amazing, butthere are some songs (and videos!) that desperately deserveyour attention.

Can I have this music in my library without seeming likean unbearable douche? Totally. Just avoid obsessing over theartists who creepily sexualize adolescence and you’re good to go.

Genre: Witch HouseA meme gone too far, witch house is the product of a cou-

ple of artists (including Pictureplane’s Travis Egedy) jokinglydescribing what type of house music they played. It got pickedup by the blogosphere and from there devolved into a series ofthinkpieces about microgenres, marketing and their inherentstupidity. To anyone with a working pair of ears, it just soundslike electronic music with a slightly experimental bent or chill-wave (another genre that, despite being ill-defined and applic-able to way too many people, has become the Internet’s req-

uisite whipping boy), with darker themes. Some of it is evengood: Salem’s dark and heavy electonica sounds apocalyptic inthe best way possible. I think we’ll all feel better if weCTRL+F the words “witch house” and replace them with“electronic music.”

Can I have this music in my library without seeming likean unbearable douche? If you label it “witch house,” you area douche. If not, you’re just a scummy hipster like the rest ofus.

Genre: SeapunkIt doesn’t sound nautical, save some murky sounding fil-

ters, and it most definitely doesn’t sound like punk rock. Thisis where the whole concept of microgenres jumped the shark.A group of hipsters making adequate-but-not-incredible elec-tronic music started wearing dolphin t-shirts, dyeing their hairgreen and posting weird images of waves and SpongebobSquarepants onto their Tumblrs and, all of a sudden, theInternet began to care. The New York Times even wrote astory on it, albeit one that basically came to the conclusion of“What the fuck?” While the music isn’t really that bad, it’s justdiscomforting to imagine all of it occurring as part of a scene,and you don’t want to inherently approve by listening to it. Ifsomeone wanted to come up with a reason to ban hipstersfrom Williamsburg, this is it.

Can I have this music in my library without seeming likean unbearable douche? Most likely not, unless you and yourfriends are really into cosplay inspired by The Little Mermaid.

Ifirst discovered Sufjan Stevens by the kindgraces of an episode of The OC, duringJohnny’s funeral. I wasn’t particularly sad

about the passing of Johnny, but as the ganglaid leis by Johnny’s surfboard-tomb, Iuncannily found myself moved. The song,what was it? Once I scoured the Internet andfound the name and artist (“The Widows InParadise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti”), Iwas instantly enamored. Ah, that ukulele,and, what’s that now, trumpets? Who thinksof that?

At this point, my eighth grade,Abercrombie-garbed self then unearthedmore and more of Sufjan Stevens’ music andwas very pleased with what she found. Upuntil now, my musical tastes had evolvedfrom N*Sync, to ChristinaAguilera, to a very strangeand long obsession withGood Charlotte. I, thankful-ly, found the turning point ofmy musical taste in Sufjan(which I soon learned, wasnot pronounced “Suff-jan”).Album after album had itsgems, but I was particularlytaken with Illinois, which hadbeen released just the summer before this dis-covery. The combinations of instrumentalswere foreign to my provincial ears, the titleswere long and fun to memorize, and thelyrics were just so clever.

Appetite thoroughly whetted, I then tookon this bear of an album. Not only is there amultitude of songs, but each song has been

crafted into an elaborate, lyrical masterpiecethat must be digested patiently. His strikinguse of unconventional time signatures,dynamics and instrumental passages is subor-dinate to his mastery of introducing variegat-ed genres, instruments and textures specificto each track. Critics will claim that, musi-cally, Sufjan is highly indebted to artists andcomposers as varied as Philip Glass, SteveReich and Stravinsky to Death Cab and TheCure — the latter of which he borrows a sax-ophone line for use in “Come On! Feel theIllinoise!”

However, the adept way in which hepieces together these influences, so organical-ly and conjunctionally with each other, iswhere the genius of this album truly lies.

Song after song of multi-layered avant-classi-cal compositions are carefully balanced withsimple, acoustic benedictions on guitar. Thetruly affecting, falsetto-sung “Oh my God”in “John Wayne Gacy Jr.” instantly gave mechills. “Casmir Pulaski Day” tugged at myheartstrings with its rich banjo and “TheTallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders” was

one of my first ringtones. The buoyant andsoothing “Decatur” (the title of which is,marvelously, rhymed with “alligator,” “avia-tor” and “emancipator”) features one ofSufjan’s most obliging melodies of all time.“Come On! Feel the Illinoise!” incorporatesswirling horns and chimes while mimickinga ska ballad. He tops it off with a real stringquartet to complement the contributingChicago-based children’s choir. Purely instru-mental interludes lace the album together inthe forms of “A Short Reprise for MaryTodd” (shortened for sanity), the mysterious“To the Workers of the Rock River ValleyRegion” and another kind nod to string play-ers, “Let’s Hear That String Part Again,Because I Don’t Think They Heard it All theWay Out in Bushnell.”

It wasn’t until after I devoured the musicthat I read up on the resplendent folklore ofthe album. Many of the lyrics in Illinois ref-erence persons, places and events related toits eponymous state, paying homage to therich culture of the American Midwest. “JohnWayne Gacy, Jr.” documents the story of theinfamous 1970s Chicago-based serial killer,an interesting tidbit I wish I had knownbefore telling a rather demure classmate togive it a listen. However, I was distracted bythe alluring piano atop beautiful pulsing gui-tar riffs. The haunting “Casmir Pulaski Day”is named after an Illinois holiday honoringthe Polish-born victor of the Battle ofBrandywine. “Concerning the UFOSighting Near Highland, Illinois” is about aUFO sighting by police officers near

Highland, Illinois. “Come on! Feel theIllinoise!” makes reference to the World’sColumbian Exposition that took place inChicago in 1893. “They Are NightZombies!!” refers to various localities ofIllinois with the lyrics: “B-U-D-A!Caledonia!� S-E-C-O-R! Magnolia!� B-I-R-D-S! And Kankakee! Evansville and ParkerCity.”

It helps that this album truly never stopsrenewing itself with each listen — not onlyin a musical sense, but also in a literary one.It is almost as if reading a well-written novel.Allusions pop out in later listens that I didnot spot initially, from Carl Sandburg toFrank Lloyd Wright. And so, listening to thisalbum is never insipid or monotonous, in thesame way that my favorite novels get betterwith each read. It is work of art that trulykeeps on giving, so much so that other tal-ented artists wish to breathe new life into it.Recently, just as I was straying from the pathof “real” music and into the realms of housemusic, as if by some stroke of God, I stum-bled upon a rebirth of Illinois, in the form ofa mixtape by a so-called DJ. It wasn’t untillater that I discovered that the mastermindbehind Illin-noise was none other thanDonald Glover, under yet another pseudo-nym. By all means, listen to this chilled-outremix and let yourself relive once more thealbum that changed my life.

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James Rainis is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture andLife Sciences. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com.Irresponsible Listening appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

Martha Wydysh is a sophomore in the College ofArts and Sciences. She can be reached atmwydysh@cornellsun.com.

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Flyers Beat Penguins in O.T.PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jakub Voracek beat

Marc-Andre Fleury from in close 2:23 into over-time to give the Philadelphia Flyers a 4-3 comebackvictory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesdaynight in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quar-terfinal series.

Fleury stopped Matt Read's shot from the cor-ner, but Voracek pounced on the rebound to cap afurious rally from a 3-0 deficit. Daniel Brierescored twice, and Brayden Schenn added a goal inhis playoff debut. Ilya Brzygalov settled down aftera shaky start to finish with 25 saves.

Sidney Crosby, Tyler Kennedy and PascalDupuis scored for the Penguins, and Marc-AndreFleury stopped 22 shots, but Pittsburgh struggledafter dominating the first period.

Game 2 is Friday night in Pittsburgh.The rivals delivered on their promise to play

“whistle-to-whistle” and leave out the rough stuffthat highlighted their six regular-season meetings.The game featured only a handful of penalties andlittle of the typical animosity.

Crosby missed the playoffs last season whiledealing with concussion-like symptoms and thememory of watching from the rafters as thePenguins lost to Tampa Bay in seven games remainsfresh.

The former MVP wasted little time making upfor lost time. He gave Pittsburgh the lead on hissecond shift, shaking off a hit Philadelphia defense-man Braydon Coburn in the corner then bouncingto his feet and flipping a rebound over Bryzgalov’sglove 3:43 into the first period.

Kennedy made it 2-0 just over 4 minutes later,his wrist shot from the left circle beating Bryzgalovover his stick.

Philadelphia coach Peter Laviolette called time-out, a maneuver he used successfully 10 days agoafter the Flyers fell behind by two goals in the first5 minutes. It worked April 1, as Philadelphia ral-lied for a 6-4 victory.

It worked. Just not immediately.Dupuis gave Pittsburgh a 3-0 advantage with

just 37 seconds left before the first intermission,scraping a puck off Bryzgalov’s pads and into thenet. The goaltender appeared to have no clue wherethe puck was on the play.

The Flyers limped to the dressing room but —as they have all season — they rallied.

Philadelphia won 20 games during the seasonwhen the opponent scored first, the most in theNHL. The Flyers showcased that resiliency duringthe final two periods of regulation, clamping downon Crosby and NHL-leading scorer Evgeni Malkin.

Briere gave the Flyers life with a breakaway goal6:22 into the second period, even though replaysshowed he was well offside on the play. He broughtPhiladelphia within a goal with 10:37 left in regu-lation with a wrist shot from a tough angle thatclanged off the far post and in.

Schenn tied it just over 3 minutes later by redi-recting a shot by Scott Hartnell and setting up thekind of taut finish expected in perhaps the mostcompetitive first-round series of the playoffs.

NOTES: The Flyers are 3-1 in overtime inPittsburgh ... The Penguins scratched D MattNiskanen, who missed the final two games of theregular season with an upper-body injury ... ThePenguins are 6-2 in series in which they have home-ice advantage during Crosby's career ...Philadelphia D Marc-Andre Bourdon left the gamewith an upper-body injury and is day-to-day.

Knicks Win CrucialTo Playoff Dreams

MILWAUKEE (AP) — J.R. Smith hit a 3-pointer for the leadwith 1:04 left, and the New York Knicks held on to beat theMilwaukee Bucks 111-107 on Wednesday night in a game that couldturn out to be critical to both teams’ playoff hopes.

Carmelo Anthony had 32 points and 10 rebounds, while TysonChandler added 19 points for the Knicks, who took a two-game leadon Milwaukee for the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference. Smithhad 14 points off the bench.

Monta Ellis had 35 points and Brandon Jennings added 22 for theBucks, who were coming off a 20-point loss to Oklahoma City athome on Monday.

The Bucks had won two of three games with the Knicks beforeWednesday, and a win would have given them a head-to-headtiebreaker edge.

Milwaukee led 88-84 going into the fourth quarter, then startedthe period with a quick 6-2 run to take a 94-86 lead. Ekpe Udoh, theother player the Bucks obtained in last month's trade for Ellis, scoreda pair of inside baskets during the run.

With the Knicks’ chances appearing to fade, Anthony drew a tech-nical foul when he slammed the ball on the floor in frustration with8:53 left in the game. But Jennings missed the foul shot and theKnicks used a scoring spurt to tie it at 99 on a 3-pointer by Smith.New York then took a 101-99 lead on a pair of free throws by Smithwith 3:16 left.

Chandler then picked up his fifth foul, and Udoh hit one of twofree throws to cut the lead to one.

Anthony then scored on a rebound of his own miss, and Udoh hita jumper on the other end.

Udoh then came up with a block on Iman Shumpert, MikeDunleavy Jr. rebounded a miss on the other end and kicked it out toEllis, who hit a 3-pointer from the top of the key to give the Bucks a105-103 lead with 1:45 left.

Anthony hit a turnaround jumper at the other end to tie the game.Luc Richard Mbah a Moute scored on a putback on the other end

for Milwaukee, but Smith hit a wide-open 3-pointer with 1:04 left togive the Knicks a 108-107 lead.

After a miss by Dunleavy, Steve Novak — a former MarquetteUniversity standout who knows the Bradley Center rims well — hit apair of free throws for a 110-107 Knicks lead with 19.4 left.

Brandon Jennings missed a 3-pointer that would have tied thegame, and Shumpert was fouled and hit one of two free throws for afour-point lead with 9 seconds left.

The Knicks took advantage of woeful interior defense by theBucks early on, hitting 11 of their first 12 shots — a lot of them com-ing on layups. Of the Knicks’ first 30 points of the game, 26 of themcame in the paint.

New York shot 77.3 percent from the field in the first quarter andled 36-27 going into the second, but the Bucks came roaring backwith a 15-2 run to take the lead. Backup Bucks forward Larry Sandershad a pair of blocks during the run, helping Milwaukee close off theinterior on defense.

The teams went into the third quarter tied at 62.NOTES: Anthony appeared to tweak his right wrist on a play in

the second quarter but stayed in the game. ... It was a short night forMilwaukee center Drew Gooden, who is nursing a sore back andplayed only 5:02. ... A long jumper by Dunleavy in the first quarterwas ruled a 3-pointer after a replay review by officials.

Predators Defeat Red Wings toTake Game One of Playoff Series

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —Gabriel Bourque scored twogoals in his postseason debut,and the Nashville Predators heldonto home-ice advantage bybeating Detroit Red Wings 3-2on Wednesday night to opentheir Western ConferenceplayoNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)— Gabriel Bourque scored twogoals in his postseason debut,and the Nashville Predators heldonto home-ice advantage bybeating Detroit Red Wings 3-2on Wednesday night to opentheir Western Conference playoffseries.

Game 2 is Friday night inNashville.

Paul Gaustad scored his firstpostseason goal, and Pekka Rinnemade 35 saves. The Predatorsstarted at home after edgingDetroit for the No. 4 seed, andthey started their third postsea-son series against their CentralDivision rival with their first winin the opening game.

Henrik Zetterberg and TomasHolmstrom scored power-playgoals for Detroit. The Red Wingslost center Darren Helm to anupper-body injury in the firstperiod.

Nashville gave Detroit 44 sec-onds of a 5-on-3 when RyanSuter was called for slashing atwith 3:52 to go. The Predatorskilled off the 5-on-3, butHolmstrom scored with 2:07 leftto give Detroit a chance.

After Holmstrom’s goal,Nashville took its timeout whileDetroit coach Mike Babcockpulled Jimmy Howard for theextra attacker. With 22.9 secondsleft, Martin Erat went to the boxfor holding, but the Predatorssealed up the victory.

Detroit came in with all thetradition thanks to 11 Stanley

Cups against a Nashville fran-chise that has been using the RedWings as its measuring sticksince hitting the ice in 1998-99.Detroit also is the team Nashvillehas played the most in the post-season with nine of the first 12games decided by two goals orfewer and the Red Wings takingfirst-round series in 2004 and2008.

The Red Wings spent the pastfew days talking about how theyenjoyed the chance to start thepostseason on the road for achange.

They came into a sold-outBridgestone Arena with muchless of the Detroit red the RedWings usually see in Nashville.The Red Wings held the NHL’sbest power play in the regularseason scoreless on six chances,which included 1:14 of a 5-on-3in the first.

It was tied at 1 with Detroitfiring away at Rinne, trying totake the lead when when MattHalischuk shot at the net justafter crossing the blue line.Bourque tipped it into the farcorner of the net for a 2-1 lead at12:29 of the second for a shotHoward had no chance at stop-ping.

Bourque scored what woundup as the winner at 11:35 with awrister from the slot off an assistfrom Patric Hornqvist.

The Predators played withoutone of their biggest trade acquisi-tions. Defenseman Hal Gill wasscratched because of a lower-body injury.

But Gaustad scored at 6:59for a 1-0 lead. Nashville sentBuffalo its first-round pick inJune for Gaustad, and heresponded by scoring his firstpostseason goal by throwing thepuck toward the crease as he skat-

ed behind the net, and it bankedoff Detroit defenseman BradStuart's left skate past Howard. Italso was Gaustad's first goal withNashville.

Commissioner Gary Bettmanwas in attendance, and thatmight be why officials stayedbusy calling plenty of penaltieswith six in the first period alone.

During Nashville’s secondpower play, Helm dropped aglove on the ice and raced to thelocker room.

Nashville outshot Detroit 13-5 in the first. The Red Wingstook the first seven shots of thesecond and took advantage whendefenseman Roman Josi wascalled for cross-checking at 1:10of the period. Zetterberg scoredat 2:29 of the first, beating Rinnewith the goalie sprawled out onhis back.

Nashville had a power play ofits own on a tripping call onZetterberg but couldn't manage ashot. The Predators didn't take ashot until Shea Weber nearlynine minutes into the periodbefore Bourque’s redirect putthem ahead to stay.

Notes: Nashville also had afranchise-record 25 sellouts dur-ing the regular season. ...Gaustad came in with eightassists in 38 playoff games beforescoring his first postseason goal.... Nashville F Jordin Tootoo, oneof three Predators who played intheir first playoff against Detroitin 2004, was a healthy scratch. ...Nashville right wing BrandonYip had an assist on Gaustad’sgoal. He has five points (2 goals,3 assists) in seven career playoffgames. ... Zetterberg’s goal washis 50th in the postseason. Heled Detroit with six pointsagainst Nashville during the reg-ular season.

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“To prep we had a good weekend of qualifying rounds to put ourselves in pres-sure situations,” Lavin said. “We’re hoping those rounds, along with the previousweeks’ tournament[s], will put us in a competitive mindset.”

When asked who could potentially have the biggest impact on the team thisweekend, Dean andLavin both said thatevery member of theteam is dangerous andcapable of getting alow score.

The Red sees thistournament as a step-

ping stone to the Ivy League Championship, which is the ultimate goal for the teamthis year, according to Dean.

“Our goal every tournament is to come out with a win,” he said. “Our secondarygoal this weekend is definitely to come out on top of the Ivy League teams at thetournament. Taking home an Ivy League championship in three weeks is our num-ber one goal and finishing on top of the Ivy League teams this weekend would giveus the confidence and motivation to carry our work ethic and performance to cham-pionship weekend in three weeks.”

to? I think that’s part of it, but alsobecause I associate it with family. In fact,baseball, more so than other sports, isoften spoken of fondly because of itsassociation with families, especially tradi-tionally with fathers and sons. I wonderif my own attraction to this familialaspect of the game is only because theDodger game was the first sporting eventmy dad took me to. I wonder: If he hadtaken me to a Lakers game or a Ramsgame, if my primary athletic allegiancewould be to basketball or football?Fathers and sons can play catch, but theycan also play one-on-one and throw theol’ pigskin around.

So is there something to why baseballis more often than other sports charac-terized as fostering this special relation-ship between fathers and their children?Colum McCann recently wrote in TheNew York Times that when he’s sitting inYankee Stadium with his son, it feels likeit’s not just him sitting with his son, it’shis father sitting with him, too, and hisfather with him, and so on … He indi-cates that being there with his childrenbrings him back to his boyhood. I can’tattest to the feelings of sitting in a stadi-um with my own kids, but baseball doesseem to bring me back to my not yet sodistant boyhood. I think McCann isright about the familial attachments thatbaseball seems to evoke and strengthen.

It may be that because baseball hasbeen a mainstream sport in the UnitedStates for so much longer than any of theother professional sports, it’s currentlyconducive to these sorts of inter-genera-tional attachments, yet other sports willeventually catch up. But I think there’smore to it than that. Baseball is a gameplayed outdoors — there’s somethingspecial in how the “outdoors” functionsas a means to build relationships for fam-ilies in general and fathers and sons inparticular — think of camping, or doingsome sort of activity together in thebackyard, or a park. Football is playedoutdoors, but it’s played in huge, imper-sonal stadiums — concrete bowls —where most fans are distant from theaction. Although baseball can also beplayed in fairly large stadiums, most ofthe fields are rather smaller and oftenhave much nuance in their layout. Thestructure of the stadiums, as well as thefact that they are often named “field” or

“park,” suggests the sort of intimacy thatmay be more conducive to building fam-ily ties.

Also, the greater contact between thefans and the players — unhidden by hel-mets and pads, hitting or throwing ballsinto the stands, and signing autographs— adds to the intimacy and offers ampleopportunity for a father to educate hisson about the players. The possibility ofconversation also makes baseball ideallysuited for fostering familial relations asopposed to other sports. Baseball isplayed at a slow enough pace that itallows for conversations to take place,whereas the action in basketball andhockey is so rapid fire that it requiresmuch more attentiveness to the gamethan who you’re with.

My mom’s burgeoning interest in thegame and the Dodgers in recent yearsconfirms to me that baseball has somequality conducive to bringing familiestogether. Furthermore, it’s much moreaffordable to go to games as a family thanany of the other major sport. The foodhas become quite expensive in recentyears, but the hot dogs are certainlyworth it. I think grilled Dodger Dogs aresecond only to hot dogs grilled at home.Perhaps it’s because they’re evocative ofbackyard summer barbecues.Incidentally, baseball is played in thesummer which is traditionally the timeof year (outside of holidays) most oftenassociated with spending time with fam-ily.

One final thing that I think makesthe Dodgers in particular evocative of afamily is Vin Scully. The broadcastercan paint a picture with words like noother. His soothing voice has been aconstant presence with the team for aslong as most fans can remember (63years this year, to be exact). Arguablythe most beloved Dodger, he’s reminis-cent of a grandfather figure. The sporthas featured other beloved broadcasters— men such as Harry Kalas, HarryCarey, Jack Buck, Mel Allen, and ErnieHarwell — which testifies to the placethat broadcasters can take within ateam. Scully was notably absent onopening day given that he’s been strug-gling with a cold. Here’s hoping that hegets well soon. It just isn’t the same fam-ily without him.

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Out on a limb

More than 4,000 fans headed to Schoellkopf Field on Tuesday afternoon to watchCornell (9-1, 4-0 Ivy League) host Syracuse (5-5). In a matchup between two of the mostpowerful offenses in the nation, the first 30 minutes of play seemed lacking. Each teamwas able to record only three goals in the first half, a far cry from what was expected.However, the Red fired off two goals at the beginning of the third frame — two at thehands of senior midfielder Roy Lang — kicking off a nine-goal scoring spree, which wouldsecure it a 12-6 win over the visiting Orange.

Improving to 9-1 for the season, Cornell extended its winning streak to seven, as wellas its home-game winning streak to 16 games — the best record in the country. Juniorattacker/midfielder Max Van Bourgondien recorded a career-high four goals, in additionto an assist, while Lang tallied a hat-trick of his own — his second of the season.Sophomore net-minder Andrew West made nine saves for the day. Cornell led the Orangein shots, 46-24, ground balls, 39-23, and face-offs, 14-8. Clearing the ball 19-of-21 times,the Red also capitalized on 3-of-5 extra man opportunities, compared to Syracuse onlycapitalizing on 1-of-5.

At the end of the game, six Cornell players scored goals, with three notching assists. Thewin also lifted head coach Ben DeLuca’s career record to 23-4, and improved the men’slacrosse program to 700-444-27 all-time. Cornell has now held opponents to single-digitscoring in seven of nine games for the season.

— Compiled by Lauren Ritter

Men’s Lacrosse Continues Winning StreakWith Victory Over Syracuse

Freshman attacker Matt Donovan wasnamed Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Weekon Monday along with Brown freshmanattacker Nick Piroli. Donovan — aMorristown, N.J., native — has won theRookie of the Week title three timesalready this season: on March 5, March 26and April 2.

He earned his fourth honor this weekafter racking up two goals and an assistagainst Harvard on April 7. Donovan’sfirst goal came at the beginning of the sec-ond period, with his assist coming soonafter. Both of these points helped Cornell

to take what had been a tight game andturn it into a comfortable 6-1 lead at half-time. His last goal came as the game wasdrawing to a close, breaking Harvard’smomentum and helping the Red secure avictory.

The 14-10 triumph over the Crimsonwas crucial for Cornell, who remain unde-feated in the Ivy League this season.Donovan has 12 goals and 12 assists onthe season, ranking second on the teamwith 24 points total.

— Compiled by Dani Abada

Donovan Named Rookie of the Week Again

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Honorable mentions | Freshman attacker Matt Donovan now has four Ivy League Rookie ofthe Week titles to his name.

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“We just need to go out there and put upthe scores we are capable of shooting.”Alex Lavin

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Ready for rivals | Senior John Dean and the rest of the golf team said they have been waiting for this weekend, which will bethe first major showcase of Ivy League talent this season.

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Cornell Prepares for Ivy Competition

Baseball: It’s aFamily Thing

This weekend the Red travels to Springdale Golf Club inPrinceton, N.J. to participate in the Princeton Invitationalgolf tournament. The tournament will feature some of thefirst competition between the Ivy League teams this season.

“We can count on most of the Ivy League being there,”said senior John Dean. “This is our first tournament of thespring to see how we stack up against the rest of the IvyLeague.”

The Red goes into the tournament off of a lackluster per-formance in the Fireline Towson Invitational tournament, butmorale on the team is very high.

“Morale is high; we’re confident,” said senior captain Alex

Lavin. “We know we can beat anyone, we just need to go outthere and put up the scores we are capable of shooting.”

This course will not be that difficult in relation to the restof the courses on the team’s schedule, according to Lavin andDean, but the weather during this season could present someproblems when the team tees off.

“The course is generally easy, but the conditions are sure tobe tough given how dry our season has been,” Dean said.“The greens will be quick with significant slope. Good scoreswill come from leaving the ball on the proper side of the holeto ensure an easy two-putt and a good shot at birdie.”

To combat this, the team put in a lot of preparation inorder to simulate these abnormal conditions and the pressure

Lone rangers | Junior captain Sarah Hein prepares for the upcom-ing weekend, where the emphasis shifts to individual performance.

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By ZACH GAYNERSun Staff Writer

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Icouldn’t have been happier Tuesday as I beganwatching the Los Angeles Dodgers homeopener. One thing was missing though — I

had to call my dad. I called him up to find out ifhe was watching the game, or so I told him. Butthe real reason I called him was because I wantedto talk to him for a while as I watched the game.

I remember my first Dodger game very dis-tinctly. I was nine years old. My dad had justreceived a voucher for tickets as a gift from myolder siblings. We chose a game against theArizona Diamondbacks sometime in May. Mymom and an aunt also went with us to that game.The Dodgers won 4-0, and from then on I washooked.

I remember one of those siblings asking meyears later why I liked baseball the most over othersports. Was it because I enjoyed the strategy in thegame? Was it that I liked the fact that it’s playedoutdoors? Well, football involves strategy — allsports do — and it’s also played outdoors as manyother sports are. I would say that all sports sharecertain qualities that probably attract fans such asthe thrill of competition, the skill of the partici-pants, the sense of identification with the com-petitors and the sense of fulfillment you get whenyour side wins. You can say this about baseball,basketball, football, hockey, or any other sport.But beyond these qualities, why do some peopleprefer certain sports over others? Why do I likebaseball more than any other sport?

Might it simply be because that first baseballgame was the first live sporting event I had been

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Twelve members of Cornell’sgymnastics team will travel toBridgeport, Connecticut thisweekend to compete individuallyin the USAG Women’s CollegiateNational Championships.

The event is designated formembers of the top eight teams inthe country that award seven orfewer scholarships to competingathletes. This year, Penn is theonly other Ivy school to send ath-letes.

Historically Cornell has beenvery successful at the nationallevel, winning the competition forthe first time in 2009. Howeverthis year is the first time since2000 that Cornell has not made itto the competition as a team.

Yet the Red is still confident inits ability to perform this week-end. Of the 12 athletes competing,a majority of the team has had pre-vious experience competing at thenational level.

“Having so many people go isexciting for us,” said junior cap-tain Ashley Maher. “There are

some new faces … but 10 of us areall upperclassmen, we’ve all beenbefore.”

Sammy VanderPutten andMaia Vernacchia are the two fresh-men competitors for Cornell.VanderPutten will participate onvault and floor, and Vernacchia onbeam.

While maintaining a teamatmosphere during training, thegymnasts will also have the oppor-tunity to hone their individualskills at the meet.

“Now it’s more of an individualsport,” said junior captain SarahHein. “You really have to showyour hardest skills … it’s a differ-ent mindset because it’s aboutindividual performance. Becausemost of us are only doing one ortwo events, we really have to goout there and give it our all.”

It is expected that the talent onthe team will carry some of theathletes through to the final roundof competition, according toHein.

“There are a couple of us whohave potential to make finals,” shesaid. “Any given person that quali-fied has the opportunity to make

it.”April 12 is the date of the pre-

liminary rounds, after which thetop five in each event will competeon April 14.

Cornell has two defendingchampions that will be competingthis weekend: senior MelanieStandridge on beam, and sopho-more Melanie Jorgensen on bars.Maher will also be competing onbars, and Hein will compete onvault.

“We’ve had a full week of prac-tice [since the last competition],”Hein said. “It’s been time to reallyfocus on the little details. It’s allabout perfection … focusing onthat one routine and perfectingevery little detail.”

According to Maher, the teamis coming off of some strong show-ings late in the season.

“The two best meets of the sea-son were our last two,” she said.“The energy is really high andeveryone is excited. Training hasbeen great, and we’re really able tofine tune things.”

GYMNASTICS

Veteran Red Squad Heads to NationalsBy REBECCA VELEZSun Staff Writer

Rebecca Velez can be reached atrvelez@cornellsun.com.

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